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The thing about France Jobin's music that never fails to impress is that it works on so many levels. Listen to it at the threshold of perception (the way it is mastered) or at very high volume, on headphones or through loudspeakers, and you will hear new sonic relationships, new structures, a new logic every time. Things simultaneously are and aren't as they seem; sounds you hear are and aren't really there.

Montréal sound/installation artist France Jobin has come a long way since her days as a blues keyboardist in the 1980s. In 1999, after a hiatus that lasted a decade, during which she raised two sons, she turned to experimental electronic music of the very quiet, rumbling, abstracted kind, and started performing and releasing music under the moniker i8u. Slowly but with great assurance, she built a much-lauded career and kept on refining her art, ever digging deeper into the core of sound. When the revered LINE label offered her an album (Valence) in 2012, she abandoned her alias and started using her own name.

In her own words:

«The Illusion of Infinitesimal represents another chance to refine the unique essence of each sound and composition, in an effort to better communicate intent without influencing its unfolding, a delicate balance between perfection and detachment.

A parallel could be drawn from particles of matter, which, "as far as we know, are infinitesimal points of zero size, yet they have measurable amounts of angular momentum. Does the concept of rotation even make sense for a featureless speck? Angular momentum seems to be a more foundational concept than rotation itself. The angular momentum, or spin, of a single particle is restricted in strange ways. It can have only certain values, and not all values are allowed for all particles." (1)

Perfection and uncertainty.»

(1) Collage of quotes from Jim Pivarski, "Spin", Symmetry Magazine, March 2013.

France Jobin - 0

A Rework of the track "Si" by Nils Frahm for Nils' Screws Reworked project 2014.

http://reworked.nilsfrahm.com/

Nils Frahm - Si (Sleep Orchestra Rework)

Excerpt from the album 'Cracked Echoes' by ARASH AKBARI 
Available soon Nov 9th 2014 over Soft-recordings both CD & digital.

5 tracks album mastered by LAWRENCE ENGLISH @ 158
Artwork. by ARASH AKBARI
Sleeve design DAVID TEBOUL.

Music video : https://vimeo.com/109908658

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http://www.arashakbari.com/

BIO : Arash Akbari (born 1987) is a musician, producer and new media artist, based in Tehran. His music explores the genres of experimental, ambient, drone and noise, utilizing electric guitar, acoustic sounds and field recording, digital synthesis and DSP to create soulful compositions and textures. Releases over Oido Records.


ARASH AKBARI passing flares (excerpt from ST005)

still numbers

A piece from my forthcoming e.p. 'Winter Loops'... .

https://darrenharper.bandcamp.com/album/winter-loops

I Hope you'll enjoy!!

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The Yearning Loop

A piece from the 'Winter Loops' e.p... .

https://darrenharper.bandcamp.com/album/winter-loops

I hope you'll enjoy!!

Momentary Light

Excerpt of forthcoming release from Paris based artist JULIA WHITE 'in the cities of dust'.

SOFT-RECORDINGS presents ST12
Title : in the cities of dust
Release Date: February 2016
Artwork by Julia White
Layout & design by David Teboul
Mastered by David Teboul
Distribution : BANDCAMP softrecords.bandcamp.com
Format :  Digipack CD + Digital.
LINKS : soft-recordings.com

JULIA WHITE - Red Beach Harbour (excerpt from ST12)

Första låten från min kommande EP "Brus".

Utåt

Ny låt från EP:n "Brus" som släpps den 25/11 2016!

Dimma

Excerpt of forthcoming release from LINEAR BELLS 'Silence' (ST13).
Music Video : https://vimeo.com/201851526
SOFT-RECORDINGS presents ST13 
Title : SILENCE
Release Date: Feb, 2017 
Written, Recorded and Processed : David Teboul © 2017. 
Mastered by David Teboul. 
CD Artworks & photos : David Teboul 
Distribution : BANDCAMP softrecords.bandcamp.com 
Format : Digipack CD booklet + Digital.

LINEAR BELLS - Silence (Preview from ST13)

Excerpt of forthcoming release from VARGKVINT 'Brus' (ST14).
SOFT-RECORDINGS presents ST14 
Title : Dimma
Release Date: June 10th, 2017 
Written, Recorded and Processed : VARGKVINT © 2017.  
CD Artworks & photos : VARGKVINT & David Teboul 
Distribution : BANDCAMP softrecords.bandcamp.com 
Format : Digipack CD + Digital.

VARGKVINT - Dimma (Excerpt from ST14)

Second excerpt of forthcoming release from VARGKVINT 'Brus' (ST14).
SOFT-RECORDINGS presents ST14 
Title : Varg
Release Date: June 10th, 2017 
Written, Recorded and Processed : VARGKVINT & LINEAR BELLS © 2017. 
CD Artworks & photos : VARGKVINT & David Teboul 
Distribution : BANDCAMP softrecords.bandcamp.com 
Format : Digipack CD + Digital.

VARGKVINT - Varg (with Linear Bells) Excerpt from ST14

Like a dry autumn
Leaf
Flying place to place
Making home
Anywhere
Or like a gypsy
Roaming the earth
Deserts
Cities
Forests
Following the
Stars or
The fortune
Content at any change
I wish you my Heart
You were a leaf
Or a gypsy
A wandering spirit
A nomad
Vagabond
But you of all
Chose to be
A Swan
@Linear Bells 2018

Linear Bells - Oh Swans !

Blue.Hour explores the high contrast colors created in the landscape during “l’heure bleue,” the period of twilight each evening when there is neither full daylight nor complete darkness. Directly following the ‘Golden Hour,’ know for its diffused yet powerful light, the Blue Hour retains the diffusion but lacks the strong light source giving this period of the day an especially melancholic and meditative atmosphere.

Blue.Hour is presented here in stereo with some compositional elements added to make it more suitable for home listening.

Yann Novak - Blue.Hour (Excerpt)

The sound of Logic Moon has graced the airwaves on esteemed labels such as Whitelabrecs, Archives and Ambientologist, among others.

Soft is a small independant label focused on Ambient, drone & experimental music. We're producing physical releases and are a non-profit label. Soft was set up by David Teboul (Linear Bells). Contact : dt44 ( @ ) free.fr
Manager : David Teboul.
Writer : Joshua Sadler.
Photographer : Peter Nejedly.

ARASH AKBARI passing flares (excerpt from ST005)

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